La LigaÃ¢ÂÂs Good Day, Bad Day - Round 35

Published

11 May 2009

GOOD DAY

ValenciaSaturdayÃ¢ÂÂs 3-0 win over Real Madrid was shows exactly why, every September, the pea-brained La Liga Loca calls for silence, stands on a chair and tipsily tips Valencia to win the title by 50 points. Ignore the fact that the Real Madrid players werenÃ¢ÂÂt exactly cranking up the oophm-o-meter on the night - especially Fabio Cannavaro during David SilvaÃ¢ÂÂs goal - and just get worked up over the wondrous ways of the front four of Mata, Villa, Silva and JoaquÃÂ­n.

Nor forgetting the excellent Pablo HernÃÂ¡ndez of course. Once again, La Liga Loca is going to tip the men from Mestalla for glory next season. Providing someone comes along with a one-billion-euro-sized bag of cash, that is. Otherwise, itÃ¢ÂÂs Ever Banega and Edu running the show in the upcoming campaign in what is likely to be a more knee-trembling football affair. But in two very different ways.

Silva sees off Real

Luis FabianoMore often or not, the Sevilla strikerÃ¢ÂÂs frequent tumbles in the box result in yellow cards rather than penalties.

90 minutes of Ã¢ÂÂRaÃÂºl for Spain!Ã¢ÂÂ songs would soon have had his bubbling brains exploding all over the stands.DeportivoSixth. Jesus.Diego ForlÃÂ¡nIt was perfect night for La Liga Loca in Vicente CalderÃÂ³n.

The crowd turning against the Atleti president at 2-0 down. A massively drunk man being propped up in his seat by his less frazzled friends. Watching Carlos Kameni wander past and realising that he could rip your head off with one hand. And another brilliant display from Diego ForlÃÂ¡n.Once again the 27-goal striker saved AtletiÃ¢ÂÂs awful back-four, which was as high as Michael Phelps for 90 minutes, but was on the right side of a lot of dodgy decisions from the flag-wavey linesman. AtletiÃ¢ÂÂs Champions League future now boils down to another big night in the CalderÃÂ³n next Sunday, this time against a Silva-suspended Valencia.

Recreativo, NumanciaBye-byeBetis Good grief, that was truly bad from Betis. Ã¢ÂÂThis team deserves to go down,Ã¢ÂÂ wrote Tito Gonzalez, a fed-up fan, in AS after the 1-0 defeat by AthleticÃ¢ÂÂs second string. Racing SantanderThe often-sparring halves of La Liga Loca have tried to work out which team it would most like to see go down along with Recreativo and Numancia this season. And for once, the blog came to an agreement. Sporting must stay up simply because of their fantastic travelling fans. Osasuna are filthy and fighty and worthy of their Primera spot. Betis are just too entertaining off the pitch to lose to la Segunda. Getafe are down the road and Espanyol have a shiny new stadium and Ivan de la PeÃÂ±a.So, itÃ¢ÂÂs a big sorry to Racing Santander who are being willed by the blog to sink into the second division. But with just two points needed to stay up, it ainÃ¢ÂÂt going to happen.